Physics and Astronomy - General Interest Seminars
Physics and Astronomy - General Interest Seminars
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From Keith Brunton
Inaugural Lecture - Prof. Rosalind Allen - Chair of Biological Physics -
From Keith Brunton
Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe. In starts and in plants, most of it is condensed and metallic. Early this year came the tenth announcement of the… -
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Just over 95% of our universe comes in the shrouded form of dark energy and matter that we can neither explain nor directly detect. Together, these two dark entities… -
From Keith Brunton
I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material. Who was to blame? The… -
From Keith Brunton
The IOP Homi Bhabha Lecture - A key recent focus in condensed matter physics attempts to related disparate many-body phenomena such as the glass transition in viscous… -
From Keith Brunton
The Standard Model of particle physics is remarkably successful, but requires a new particle, known as the Higgs boson, which has never been seen. Proposed in 1964 this… -
From Keith Brunton
Timber is one of the few truly renewable construction materials we have, but the fact it is made by trees to suit their own agenda presents a number of challenges. This… -
From Keith Brunton
Professor Charles Cockell, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, gives his inaugural lecture -
From Keith Brunton
Neutrinos are the only hint for physics beyond the Standard Model. While the hierarchy problem, gauge coupling unification and dark matter give rise to hope for a direct… -
From Keith Brunton
We learn at school that Isaac Newton is the father of modern optics, that Copernicus heralded the birth of astronomy, and that it is Snell's law of refraction. But… -
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On the 4th of July 2012, the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN announced the discovery of a new fundamental subatomic particle, with a… -
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Using the multi-MJ laser at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in California, a breakthrough in exploring matter at high compression, to 1000-fold initial density, is… -
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Cochlear implants are the first device to successfully restore neural function. They have instigated a popular but controversial revolution in the treatment of deafness,…
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